Inniskillings move to Kinsale, Ireland.

In 1894, welcome orders came for the 1st Battalion The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers to proceed from Portsmouth to Ireland. On 4 June 1894, the Battalion landed at Queenstown (now Cobh) and furnished detachments for the fortifications of Cork, with Headquarters at Kinsale where the Headquarter Company did fine work in fighting an alarming fire which raged in the Market Place on the night of 12 August 1894. The Battalion was warmly thanked for their splendid exertions on this occasion. At the subsequent meeting of the Kinsale Town Commissioners, they passed a motion:

‘That the Kinsale Town Commissioners, on behalf of the towns people, beg to tender to Colonel Crawford, officers, non commissioned officers, and men of the Inniskillings, our deep gratitude to their valuable services rendered at the recent disastrous fire in our town, and we are of opinion that were it not for their prompt and energetic action on the occasion referred to, the fire might have been attended with much more serious results’.

The GOC of Cork District in his orders also praised the Inniskillings.